Musée du quai Branly

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The Quai Branly Museum - Jacques-Chirac, more commonly known as the Quai Branly Museum, formerly the Museum of Arts and Civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas before 2016, is an ethnographic museum located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, along the Seine wharf giving it its name and at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, on the Jacques Chirac wharf. The project, led by Jacques Chirac and directed by Jean Nouvel, was inaugurated on 20 June 2006. The number of visitors reached nearly 1,500 000 in 2009 and in 2022 reached the 20 million mark since its opening, placing it among the most frequented in the world in its category.

On 21 June 2016, ten years after its inauguration, the museum took the name of former President Jacques Chirac, at the initiative of the project. Its emblem is a Chupicuaro statuette.